Pure red cell aplasia associated with thymoma: Is thymectomy the cure?

Leukemia Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bhargava, Rahul ^a   Dolai, Tuphan K ^a   Singhal, Deepak ^a   Mahapatra, Manoranjan ^a   Mishra, Pravas ^a   Rathod, Niranjan ^a   Rathi, Shyam ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINDLE CELL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

EID: 58549116092     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2008.04.006     Document Type: Letter

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